We have had a great summer! Grace pulled out the snorkel set we bought her for Hawaii about 5 years ago (used for about 15 min. total) and mastered it.
We took a great trip to Southern Utah that started with the Green show at the Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City. . . and a lemon tart - can't not get one.
We went to one of our favorite spots - Zions and hiked the Narrows. Beauty!
It got really hot after that so we decided to go to St. George so the kids could see the temple and other sites. We ate figs off the temple ground trees.
We were going to go to Cedar Breaks but woke up to clouds and rain, so I cajoled Jon into taking us to "Vegas" (he hates it there) to show the kids where he lived for 5 years, see the temple and go to Trader Joes:
A grounds worker asked if we wanted a family picture but the cement heated our behinds up to about 300 degrees and he was taking his time posing us and the background and we were drenched with sweat after this:
We drove to the "Sev" that Jon spent half of his time at when he was young and both of us were telling our "sev" stories - 2 pieces of candy for 1 cent, slurpees etc. The kids asked what a slurpee was (!) and after explaining it, and them saying they had never had one, we had to fix that. The kids first (according to them) slurpee:
We went to the Green show again and Texas will always follow us - we saw some kids from our old ward there with their cousins! (Notice Collins same face in all the pics?)
We all agreed that the highlight of the trip was the 24th of July (Pioneer Days) in Beaver. I love this parade! The taxidermy "float" has vamped up from a little tractor to a Mule:
And we got 9 bags of cheese curds. That's 2 1/2 lbs of fresh cheese curds! YUM.
The kids "loot" of candy (the otter pops were already eaten) and Jons flowers:
And the most welcome part - the firetruck hose. The kids were completely soaked.
It was a great trip. Collin even said it was better than he thought it would be - amazing!
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